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Azerbaijani chess player Shakhriyar Mammadyarov played his next games at the Total Chess World Championship Tour Pilot 2026 tournament in Budapest, the capital of Hungary.
On November 13, Mammadyarov faced U.S. representative Abhimanyu Mishra in the third round of Group C. The Azerbaijani grandmaster played with the black pieces first and the white pieces in the second game. Both games ended in draws.
Standings in Group C
Under the tournament rules, a win is worth three points and a draw one point. Mammadyarov scored two points during the day, taking his overall tally to seven.
After the third round, Armenia’s Hayk Martirosyan leads the group with 10 points. The Netherlands’ Anish Giri is second with nine, while Russia’s Ian Nepomniachtchi is third with seven. Mammadyarov also has seven points but ranks fourth on tiebreakers. Magnus Carlsen and Abhimanyu Mishra have five points each.
Mammadyarov will face Carlsen in the fourth round. The Azerbaijani chess player will have the black pieces in the first game and the white pieces in the second.
Six chess players are competing in Group C, and each participant will play 10 games. The group stage will end on November 15.
Context
On November 12, Mammadyarov drew both games against Ian Nepomniachtchi.
